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We are watching storms that are moving into the western and southwestern parts of Central Alabama, especially since we have a Severe Thunderstorm warning issued on one cell located over Starkville and moving to the northeast at 25 MPH.
We are starting to see some heavier showers starting to develop over the southwestern parts of Central Alabama over Sumter and Dallas counties.
We have an active map across the southeastern United States at this point as we have crossed over into the noon hour on this wet and gray Thursday.
Skies are cloud-filled across Central Alabama with numerous showers falling over the southern and southwestern parts of the area. We also have a few thunderstorms up in the extreme northeastern parts of the state just north of the area, but none are reported to be strong at this point.
We have some clouds moving over the northern half of Central Alabama as we have hit the 11 o’clock hour. We are actually seeing some returns on the radar over the northern parts of Lamar County and the central parts of Marion County.
We have a great deal of sunshine out there as we approach the midday hour, but we do have a few clouds and some haze from smoke that is being pulled into the area from wildfires up in Canada.
While most stay dry and hot throughout the day today, a few lucky locations may see an isolated shower. For those who need rain, your luck is about to change as the end of the work week and next weekend looks to be wet at times.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year.
As we start off your Saturday with some cloud cover over parts of Central Alabama, we do have some sun brightening the sky.
Other than some cumulus clouds dotting the skies across Central Alabama, we are getting a good bit of sunshine as we have crossed over into the midday hour.
At 12:00 pm, we do have a few showers popping up over the northwestern parts of Central Alabama and up into the western parts of North Alabama. These are slowly moving to the east-northeast.
We have plenty of sunshine bearing down on Central Alabama with very little in the way of clouds to help cool any one spot for a minute or two from this unseasonal heat.
We have mainly sunny skies across much of Central Alabama as we are about to move into the 12 o’clock hour on this last Tuesday in May.
We have a good bit of sunshine out there at 1:40 pm, but we have some clouds giving us some brief relief from the sun’s heat… even if it is only for a minute or two at a time.
Plenty of sunshine is bathing Central Alabama as we have crossed over into the 1:00 pm hour on this last Saturday of May.
The Memorial Day Weekend has arrived and it will be a hot weekend for sure. We will have a little bit of a pattern change coming up later in the work week that will bring some slightly cooler temperatures and the chance of some showers and thunderstorms.
James Spann
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